Plato's Psychology and the Timaeus | p. 1 |
Toward a Unified Platonic Psychology | p. 1 |
Tejera and Strauss on Plato | p. 3 |
The Timaeus as Myth | p. 7 |
The Strong-Myth Commentators | p. 10 |
The Weak-Myth Platonists | p. 16 |
A.E. Taylor | p. 23 |
Reading the Timaeus | p. 30 |
The Psychology of the Timaeus | p. 47 |
The Opening Platonic Moves | p. 47 |
Reason in the Soul: Historical and Philosophic Considerations | p. 52 |
Implications of the Cosmic Soul for Human Psychology | p. 55 |
The Cosmic Soul and Simplicity | p. 58 |
The Cosmic Soul: Simplicity and Mixture | p. 60 |
The Problem of Motion in the Simple Soul | p. 62 |
Cosmic Soul: Some Final Reflections | p. 68 |
Time and the Soul | p. 69 |
The Creation of a Unified Human Soul | p. 74 |
The Soul and Body Relationship | p. 79 |
Introduction to the Problem | p. 79 |
Necessity and the Relationship of Body and Soul | p. 80 |
Relationships within the Parts of the Human: Motion in the Soul/Body Composite | p. 82 |
The Body and Soul: A New Element | p. 89 |
The Mortal Soul: Creation and Function | p. 90 |
The Location and Function of the Mortal Soul | p. 90 |
Divination in the Mortal Soul | p. 92 |
Problems for the Platonic Soul | p. 97 |
Overview | p. 97 |
The Problem of Individuation | p. 99 |
Status of the Account of the Creation of the Body | p. 101 |
The Soul at the Moment of Death | p. 104 |
Plato's Views on "Science" Relation to His Psychology | p. 108 |
Animals and the Human | p. 112 |
Psychological Dualism | p. 118 |
Introduction to the Issues | p. 118 |
Plato and Substance Dualism | p. 118 |
The World of Becoming: the Nature of Soul and Matter | p. 119 |
Motion, Soul, and Matter | p. 121 |
Humanity and Dualism | p. 124 |
Death and Memory | p. 125 |
Conclusion: Plato's View of the Human Soul | p. 129 |
The Soul Immortal and Political: The Psychology of Timaeus Applied to the Phaedo and the Republic | p. 141 |
Immortality: the Psychology of the Phaedo | p. 142 |
Phaedo and the Issue of Consistency | p. 142 |
Light from the Timaeus on the Psychology of the Phaedo | p. 147 |
The Soul of the City: The Psychology of the Republic | p. 150 |
The Republic's and the Timaeus' Psychology: Do They Compliment Each Other? | p. 150 |
The Human Soul in the City Revealed in the Cosmology of the Timaeus | p. 154 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 157 |
Bibliography | p. 163 |
Index | p. 171 |
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